'He's like Puss in Boots': A detailed timeline of Liam and Noel Gallagher's explosive decades-long feud

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It's not unusual for siblings to quarrel, but no pair of siblings has had such public arguments quite like Liam and Noel Gallagher. The two leading members of the band Oasis are finally burying the hatchet after 16 years to reunite on tour, which kicks off tonight (4 July).
The duo formed the iconic band all the way back in the early 1990s and became one of Britain's best musical acts, but despite their mega success, after years of feuding on and off stage the pair finally split and Oasis was over for good in 2009.
Well that was until last year, when the band announced they would be returning for a 41 date tour this summer.
But before we start searching for resale tickets and looking up the set list for the new tour, what actually caused the brothers' many arguments? Here's a full timeline of their feud and all the bizarre insults they've thrown at each other over the years.
In the early 1990s Liam Gallagher approached a band then known as The Rain and joined, but suggested changing the name to Oasis. Noel then joined later on after watching the band perform in Manchester.
During a now famous interview with NME, the article revealed the extensive way the brothers would argue and traded intense insults at each other. A 14 minute single called 'Wibbling Rivalry' was then released soon after.
In the summer of 1994 Oasis were touring America, and were performing one night in Los Angeles.
During the performance Liam sniped at Noel during a song and then hit him over the head with a tambourine before making fun of the audience and storming off stage.
Noel then quit the band that day before rejoining a few days later.
One of the brothers' most notable feud moments happened in 1995 when they were recording their second album (What's The Story) Morning Glory? The album recording was taking place in Wales, and at one point Liam invited a bunch of people he had just met at the pub to see the band in action.
Noel and Liam then argued about this, which led to Noel allegedly hitting Liam with a cricket bat that happened to be in the studio.
Liam later recalled of the incident: "The whole studio got smashed to pieces, everything just got blitzed to bits. It was probably me not giving a f**k and him trying to write f**king 'Bohemian Rhapsody,' and me going, 'Bollocks, let's have it.''
The cricket bat was later auctioned off.
Following the biggest gig of their careers so far playing to 250,000 fans at Knebworth Park, the band were set record an episode of MTV Unplugged. Liam dropped out citing laryngitis as the cause.
However, Liam then showed up at Royal Festival Hall where the recording was taking place and went on the balcony where he was seen smoking, drinking and heckling Noel. Liam then tried to get onstage at which point Noel told him to "piss off".
The band were then due to go on tour in America at which point Liam pulled out again but then turned up three days in. The tour was then cancelled two weeks later.
The band were due to play a show in Barcelona, however had to cancel the gig due to the drummer Alan White injuring his arm. The band then went and drank, and at some point in the evening it was alleged Liam had questioned the paternity of Noel's daughter Anaïs, who he shares with ex-wife Meg Matthews.
The moment reportedly led to an altercation between the brothers and Noel quitting the rest of the band's tour.
Despite their many fall outs the band carried on, but was not without its problems. During a show in 2005, Liam walked off the stage mid-way through 'Champagne Supernova'.
Though still together in the band at this point, the pair were well used to saying negative things about each other in interview.s
In early 2009 Noel was reported to have told Q Magazine that his brother Liam is "the angriest man you'll ever meet. He's like a man with a fork in a world of soup".
10 years later, Liam responded to the insult by posting a video of himself on Twitter eating soup with a fork and thanking for buying tickets to his shows.
While performing in Europe, it was one fateful performance in Paris that caused the band to finally breakup for good.
Noel alleged the pair had physically fought before starting their world tour and they were now travelling separately to the shows.
In 2015, he told Esquire of the state the pair were in: "The last six months were f***ing awful, it was excruciating.
"Me and Liam had a massive, massive, massive fistfight three weeks before the world tour started, and fights like that in the past would always be easy to rectify but for some reason I wasn't going to let it go this time. I was just like, 'F**k this ****.' And there was an atmosphere all the way around the world."
Noel also went onto say he was frustrated with Liam's approach to the band, claiming Liam was using the band's profile to sell parkas.
"Then he [Liam] starts his own clothing label and starts dedicating songs to it on stage and I'm like, 'Really, is this what it's come to?' He's modelling parkas on stage which you could buy on his website. And it's just like, 'This is not for me,'" he explained.
Ahead of the show in Paris, it was alleged Liam had started welding a guitar at Noel like an axe.
In 2015, Noel said of the alleged incident: "[Liam] goes out the dressing room, for whatever reason, he went to his own dressing room, and he came back with a guitar, and he started wielding it like an axe, and I'm not f**king kidding."
Following this Noel decided to quit the band for good. He revealed his decision on Oasis' website, explaining: "It's with some sadness and great relief to tell you that I quit Oasis tonight. People will write and say what they like, but I simply could not go on working with Liam a day longer."
Shortly after the band's breakup, Oasis were awarded a BRIT award for the best album of the last 30 years for (What's the Story) Morning Glory? Liam was the only one there to collect the award and went onto thank all the members of the band apart from Noel.
Following the breakdown of Oasis, both brothers formed new groups. Liam's is Beady Eye, while Noel's is High Flying Birds, which his brother then decided to nickname 'High Flying Turds'.
He then went onto say his brother looked like he belonged in the boyband Westlife. Speaking to Q magazine he said: "He blew it. He could have said, I was a dick, he was a dick, that's life, it's 2011, here's my f**king record.
"Listen, our Kid's a mouthy f**k too. He said we had a year to come up with a band name and came up with Beady Eye. "He had three and came up with the High Flying Turds. I don't know who dressed him but he looks like something out of Westlife."
Later on that year Liam was asked if he'd ever reunite the band with his brother, to which he replied: "I'd rather eat my own s**t than be in a band with him again. He's a miserable little f**k … If the fans want it, though, I'd do it.'
Over the years it appears the brothers' interactions with each other are brief, however, Liam does take to trolling Noel on social media, frequently posting pictures of his sibling and captioning them "potato".
Following the horrific attack at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, Liam performed on stage at the One Love Manchester concert to honour the victims.
He then tweeted about Noel's lack of appearance, saying: "Noel's out of the f**king country weren't we all love get on a f**king plane and play your tunes for the kids you sad f**k."
Noel then responded in an interview with The Sunday Times, claiming he wasn't asked to perform.
"Young Mancunians, young music fans, were slaughtered, and he, twice, takes it somewhere to be about him. He needs to see somebody," he said in response.
In July 2019, Noel's wife Sara MacDonald was asked if she would watch Liam's performance at Glastonbury, to which she declined and described Liam as a: "fat t**t doing his tribute act."
Following this Noel then claimed Liam had sent a 'threatening' message to Noel's daughter Anaïs. Noel shared a screenshot of the alleged message which said: "Tell your step mam to be very careful."
Noel went onto write on his own social media about the screenshot: "So you're sending threatening messages via my teenage daughter now are you? You always were good at intimidating women though eh."
Liam went onto apologise publicly saying: "My sincere apologies to my beautiful mum Peggy and my lovely niece Anaïs for getting caught up in all of this childish behaviour I love you both dearly."
While appearing on The Jonathan Ross Show, Noel denies claims he said no to a £100m reunion. Speaking on the show Noel said: "There isn't £100m in the music business, right, between all of us … If anybody wants to offer me £100m now, I'll say it now, I'll do it. I'll do it for £100m.'
Liam then responded on Twitter saying he would do it for free.
During yet another interview when he was asked about the reunion between himself and his brother and the band, Noel said it wouldn't happen and compared Liam to Puss in Boots from Shrek.
He told Rolling Stone Music Now podcast: "Well, I know for a fact he doesn't want it either, but he likes to paint this picture of, you know, this little f**king guy who's sitting with his suitcase packed by the door, you know, like the little f**king cat from fucking Shrek, you know, the little fucking Spanish cat with these big f**king teary eyes. 'I'm [gonna] go and do it now for you fans. I love you.' It's like, well, fucking call me then. And he hasn't called me. And until he does, it's f**king going nowhere.'
After 15 years since they last performed together on stage as Oasis, Liam and Noel announce the band is getting back together for a worldwide tour in 2025.
Heading to the tour? Check out the set list here.